The Week in Bentos: April 19-23, 2010

Monday:

I 100% totally and completely forgot to take a picture of Wyatt’s snack on Monday. I didn’t even realize I forgot until I tried to upload the photo today. I have no idea what I sent him to school with either. This is becoming a pattern.

Tuesday:

I did remember to take a picture on Tuesday though. This kindergarten lunch/snack combo had this stuff in it: a ketchup sandwich on garlic naan, strawberries, banana bread, clementine wedges and cubes of leftover pork tenderloin on skewers.

Wednesday:

Wednesday was exciting because we were trying out a new lunchbox system (more on that soon, I promise). I made more ketchup and naan sandwiches but this time I cut them into stars. I also put two clementines in his lunch and some baked tofu with the word “BATMA” cut out of it. I forgot that a capital “N” isn’t the same when you flip it horizontally, so we had to make do with the negative space for that letter. I put pretzels and strawberries in one of the snack boxes and grapes and banana bread in the other.

Augies lunch box had strawberries, chicken salad, peas and leftover pasta. I was just going to put plain chicken in this lunch, but when I defrosted a chicken tender I had stashed in the freezer it was really dry and not very appetizing. I decided to moisten it with a little mayonnaise and then I figured I may as well go all the way, so I chopped up some celery super fine and put some chopped grapes in too.

Thursday:

On Thursday Wyatt’s lunch was a half a whole wheat hamburger bun (the face was drawn on with food markers), a clementine (for the ears), a piece of olallieberry pie!, pasta with lemon vinaigrette, some grapes and deli ham roll-ups.

Friday:

Wyatt’s snack today was clementine wedges, fruit snacks, and the last of the banana bread.

Augie’s day care schedule got switched up this week, so he went today instead of Tuesday. His lunch had baby bolognese from the freezer, frozen peas, clementine chunks and some banana bread.

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